Algorithms Jobs

Algorithms
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Algorithms over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 209 126
Rank change year-on-year +90 -83 +85
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 2,317 1,687 5,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.21% 1.78% 3.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.47% 4.14% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 758 773 1,173
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £73,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +0.69% +11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £121,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%

All Generic Skills
UK

Algorithms is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,820 40,772 81,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.13% 43.08% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,199 22,412 34,284
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Algorithms.

Salary trend for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +100 1,944 £60,000 - 252
England +17 1,440 £65,000 -13.33% 487
Scotland +107 845 £65,000 +34.72% 15
South East +76 496 £58,000 -3.33% 104
Work from Home +10 469 £62,500 -13.79% 223
London -34 340 £85,000 - 246
Midlands +1 161 £62,500 +25.00% 33
North of England -59 154 £55,000 -15.38% 38
East of England +8 141 £65,000 - 37
South West +3 139 £60,000 -7.69% 21
North West -41 132 £60,000 -9.09% 21
West Midlands -29 88 £57,500 -4.17% 25
East Midlands +18 73 £75,250 +58.42% 8
Yorkshire -9 20 £50,000 -14.89% 13
Wales +13 6 £55,000 +13.99% 7
Northern Ireland +22 2 £58,750 -41.25% 5
North East -13 2 £91,200 +40.31% 4

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 240 (10.36%) Apache Spark
2 71 (3.06%) Apache
3 21 (0.91%) FileNet
4 9 (0.39%) SAS
5 7 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.30%) Confluence
6 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.22%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.17%) ColdFusion
8 4 (0.17%) IIS
8 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.086%) CMS
11 1 (0.043%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.043%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.043%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.043%) Luigi
11 1 (0.043%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.043%) WordPress
Applications
1 88 (3.80%) Simulink
2 42 (1.81%) Stateflow
3 24 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
5 13 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.43%) GNU Octave
7 7 (0.30%) CANalyzer
8 4 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.086%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.043%) Blender
10 1 (0.043%) CapCut
10 1 (0.043%) InVision
10 1 (0.043%) Revit
10 1 (0.043%) Sketch
10 1 (0.043%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.13%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.043%) Data Workbench
3 1 (0.043%) Endur
3 1 (0.043%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.043%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 563 (24.30%) AWS
2 438 (18.90%) Azure
3 238 (10.27%) IBM Cloud
4 206 (8.89%) Serverless
5 136 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
6 132 (5.70%) Azure Functions
7 129 (5.57%) GCP
8 125 (5.39%) Azure API Management
8 125 (5.39%) Azure Logic Apps
8 125 (5.39%) Azure Service Bus
9 73 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
10 65 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
11 63 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
12 55 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
13 52 (2.24%) Amazon EMR
14 51 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
15 50 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
16 47 (2.03%) SaaS
17 43 (1.86%) Power Platform
18 38 (1.64%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 22 (0.95%) Wireless
2 18 (0.78%) J1939
3 14 (0.60%) Ethernet
4 11 (0.47%) OFDM
5 9 (0.39%) Firewall
5 9 (0.39%) Internet
6 7 (0.30%) HTTP
6 7 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.26%) LAN
7 6 (0.26%) Network Security
7 6 (0.26%) VLAN
7 6 (0.26%) VPN
7 6 (0.26%) WAN
8 5 (0.22%) BGP
8 5 (0.22%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.22%) IPsec
8 5 (0.22%) NGFW
8 5 (0.22%) OSPF
8 5 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 515 (22.23%) NoSQL
2 267 (11.52%) PostgreSQL
3 244 (10.53%) MongoDB
4 238 (10.27%) DB2
5 229 (9.88%) Relational Database
6 207 (8.93%) Big Data
7 185 (7.98%) Hadoop
8 98 (4.23%) Apache Hive
9 84 (3.63%) HBase
10 81 (3.50%) Data Lake
11 75 (3.24%) Tableau
12 66 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
13 54 (2.33%) Redis
14 52 (2.24%) MySQL
14 52 (2.24%) SQL Server
15 49 (2.11%) Electronic Patient Records
16 43 (1.86%) Power BI
17 42 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
18 39 (1.68%) Qlik Sense
19 23 (0.99%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 219 (9.45%) Git
2 125 (5.39%) Jenkins
3 84 (3.63%) Bitbucket Server
4 74 (3.19%) JUnit
5 41 (1.77%) JIRA
6 25 (1.08%) Android Studio
7 24 (1.04%) Cypress.io
8 23 (0.99%) GitLab
9 21 (0.91%) Jasmine
9 21 (0.91%) Karma Test Runner
9 21 (0.91%) Protractor
9 21 (0.91%) Selenium
9 21 (0.91%) WebDriver
10 19 (0.82%) ClearCase
11 18 (0.78%) Plastic SCM
12 16 (0.69%) CMake
12 16 (0.69%) Maven
12 16 (0.69%) Subversion
13 14 (0.60%) ClearQuest
14 6 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,064 (45.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 919 (39.66%) Finance
3 803 (34.66%) Law
4 546 (23.56%) Legal
5 412 (17.78%) Social Skills
6 245 (10.57%) Public Sector
7 233 (10.06%) Marketing
8 199 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
9 152 (6.56%) Banking
10 118 (5.09%) Investment Banking
11 86 (3.71%) Electronics
12 52 (2.24%) Automotive
13 49 (2.11%) Retail
14 46 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
15 43 (1.86%) Military
16 41 (1.77%) Manufacturing
17 39 (1.68%) Games
18 27 (1.17%) Front Office
19 25 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
20 23 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 987 (42.60%) Software Engineer
2 412 (17.78%) Developer
3 298 (12.86%) Senior
4 276 (11.91%) Data Scientist
5 265 (11.44%) Java Engineer
5 265 (11.44%) Java Software Engineer
6 254 (10.96%) Full Stack Engineer
7 197 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
8 194 (8.37%) AWS Software Engineer
9 175 (7.55%) Data Engineer
10 168 (7.25%) Python Engineer
11 151 (6.52%) Python Software Engineer
12 146 (6.30%) Full Stack Developer
13 136 (5.87%) Azure Developer
14 133 (5.74%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 127 (5.48%) Big Data Engineer
15 127 (5.48%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 127 (5.48%) Lead
16 122 (5.27%) Azure Engineer
17 95 (4.10%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (19.38%) React
2 410 (17.70%) AngularJS
3 371 (16.01%) HTML
4 344 (14.85%) CSS
5 330 (14.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 329 (14.20%) .NET
7 323 (13.94%) Web Services
8 311 (13.42%) jQuery
9 279 (12.04%) REST
10 265 (11.44%) Vue
11 256 (11.05%) Node.js
12 250 (10.79%) ASP.NET
13 239 (10.32%) ASP.NET Core
14 238 (10.27%) Backbone.js
14 238 (10.27%) Ember.js
15 217 (9.37%) Spring
16 146 (6.30%) Kafka
17 133 (5.74%) TensorFlow
18 105 (4.53%) J2EE
19 99 (4.27%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 555 (23.95%) Data Structures
2 271 (11.70%) Blockchain
3 244 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 165 (7.12%) Onboarding
5 131 (5.65%) Cloud Native
6 113 (4.88%) e-Learning
7 49 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
8 47 (2.03%) Client/Server
9 41 (1.77%) Legacy Code
10 37 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 36 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.51%) CUDA
13 34 (1.47%) FPGA
14 33 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
14 33 (1.42%) Product Ownership
15 32 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
15 32 (1.38%) VHDL
16 31 (1.34%) Public Cloud
17 27 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
18 25 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 414 (17.87%) Linux
2 289 (12.47%) Windows
3 282 (12.17%) Android
4 250 (10.79%) Apple iOS
5 149 (6.43%) Unix
6 10 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
8 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.043%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,188 (51.27%) Software Engineering
2 1,140 (49.20%) Agile
3 1,121 (48.38%) Artificial Intelligence
4 960 (41.43%) Machine Learning
5 920 (39.71%) Visualisation
6 835 (36.04%) CI/CD
7 783 (33.79%) SDLC
8 774 (33.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 672 (29.00%) Community of Practice
10 662 (28.57%) Operational Stability
11 569 (24.56%) Computer Science
12 511 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
12 511 (22.05%) Risk Management
13 487 (21.02%) Mathematics
14 419 (18.08%) Data Science
15 415 (17.91%) Full Stack Development
16 384 (16.57%) OO
17 333 (14.37%) Design Patterns
17 333 (14.37%) Mentoring
18 331 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,071 (46.22%) Python
2 836 (36.08%) SQL
3 835 (36.04%) Java
4 437 (18.86%) JavaScript
5 409 (17.65%) C#
6 232 (10.01%) C
7 228 (9.84%) C++
8 141 (6.09%) MATLAB
9 134 (5.78%) TypeScript
10 121 (5.22%) PL/SQL
11 84 (3.63%) Scala
12 78 (3.37%) Fortran
13 72 (3.11%) R
14 70 (3.02%) Go
15 42 (1.81%) Bash
16 37 (1.60%) Embedded C
17 30 (1.29%) Kotlin
18 24 (1.04%) Perl
19 22 (0.95%) Haskell
20 18 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 762 (32.89%) Degree
2 275 (11.87%) Master's Degree
3 208 (8.98%) PhD
4 201 (8.68%) Security Cleared
5 119 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (2.46%) SC Cleared
7 52 (2.24%) DBS Check
8 48 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
11 13 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.47%) HND
12 11 (0.47%) MBA
13 6 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.22%) CCIE
14 5 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
14 5 (0.22%) JNCIE
15 4 (0.17%) CESG Certified Professional
15 4 (0.17%) Postgraduate
16 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (1.51%) QA
2 33 (1.42%) Data Quality
3 19 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.82%) MISRA
4 18 (0.78%) Automotive SPICE
4 18 (0.78%) GDPR
4 18 (0.78%) ISO 26262
5 12 (0.52%) AUTOSAR
6 7 (0.30%) HIPAA
6 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 5 (0.22%) IEC 61508
8 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.043%) MISRA C
System Software
1 84 (3.63%) HDFS
2 73 (3.15%) Docker
3 37 (1.60%) Firmware
4 8 (0.35%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.086%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.086%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.043%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 171 (7.38%) Kubernetes
2 129 (5.57%) Terraform
3 45 (1.94%) Grafana
4 34 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.65%) Functional Safety
6 7 (0.30%) Ansible
7 3 (0.13%) Istio
7 3 (0.13%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.086%) SCCM
9 1 (0.043%) FTK
9 1 (0.043%) Kibana
9 1 (0.043%) SCOM
Vendors
1 263 (11.35%) IBM
2 250 (10.79%) Databricks
3 238 (10.27%) Red Hat
4 113 (4.88%) Oracle
5 109 (4.70%) Microsoft
6 96 (4.14%) Google
7 89 (3.84%) Informatica
8 54 (2.33%) Cloudera
9 47 (2.03%) Alteryx
9 47 (2.03%) Dynatrace
10 46 (1.99%) Splunk
11 24 (1.04%) OpenAI
12 18 (0.78%) Lauterbach
13 14 (0.60%) Dell
14 13 (0.56%) NVIDIA
15 12 (0.52%) Facebook
15 12 (0.52%) SAP
16 10 (0.43%) Instagram
17 8 (0.35%) Ahrefs
17 8 (0.35%) Screaming Frog